7. I’m not from
here…
I’m not from
here…
I’m only 8 years
old…
I’m only 8 years
old…
My history isn’t
mainstream…
My history isn’t
mainstream…
I have a
disability…
I have a
disability…
I don’t trust
Government …
I don’t trust
Government …
I’m not an
academic…
I’m not an
academic…
9. The National Archives’ Public Task
9
Our responsibility is
for the government record,
its past and future, its use and re-use,
authentic, available and accessible to all
11. 11
The Essential Museum
“If satisfying the user’s
internalized questions
became the main mission
of the museum, it might
then become ‘essential’.”
“If satisfying the user’s
internalized questions
became the main mission
of the museum, it might
then become ‘essential’.”
Elaine Heumann Gurian
The Essential Museum
2006
14. 14
Step 2 – Photograph It
“Governors to arrange for
the taking of photographs
of noteworthy buildings
and scenery … together
with individuals of various
races peculiar to the
colony.”
“Governors to arrange for
the taking of photographs
of noteworthy buildings
and scenery … together
with individuals of various
races peculiar to the
colony.”
Right Honourable 2nd
Earl Granville
Secretary of State for the Colonies
1859
15. Step 3 – Repeat Step 2 for 120 years to create
35,000 images from around the globe
15
21. 21
Objects of the Project
• Promote wide community
engagement
• Prioritise outreach
techniques
• Empower community-led
re-use of images
• Inform future outreach
practice
22. Caribbean through a lens – at a glance
• An 18 month User
Participation project
working in community
• 50 partnerships created,
34 outputs from around
the country
• Events at High
Commissions, museums,
libraries, community
centres, schools,
charities, homeless
shelter and a prison
22
28. Impact of the project
Immediate Impact
• 65,000 + visitors to community
curated exhibitions
• 49,300 Flickr views
• 3,500 + people in local and
regional workshops
Long Term Impact?
• Evaluation underway
• Will there be a Domino Effect?
• Is this a step towards the
Essential Archive?
28
29. 29
The Essential Museum
“If satisfying the user’s
internalized questions
became the main mission
of the museum, it might
then become ‘essential’.”
“If satisfying the user’s
internalized questions
became the main mission
of the museum, it might
then become ‘essential’.”
Elaine Heumann Gurian
The Essential Museum
2006
30. A step towards the Essential Archive?
30
“We’ve never been
treated so nicely in
such a big building”
“We’ve never been
treated so nicely in
such a big building”“Any more things
happening here?”
“Any more things
happening here?”
32. Andrew Payne
Head of Education
The National Archives
andrew.payne@nationalarchives.gsi.gov.uk
020 8392 5319
www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education
Editor's Notes
And that is why, with the exec team and the management board, we have defined our public task, very simply and clearly.
We will fight for the public record. We’ll be there.
In a tough funding environment for information and records management in government. Where departments have a huge volume of information assets to keep. When the archive sector across the country needs our help to ensure that they can meet their obligations to the record. When the public partly depend on us to get access to the transparent government they deserve.
Our role is fundamental. We have the credibility to do this. And we have an important part in the government’s transparency agenda, as the front-line service for the public record